I've had my fix for the week.

For a Saturday there was a whole load of pilots here today. The weather certainly brought everyone out. There was a chilly wind from the North West at around 1 mph in the early morning, but it gradually increased in speed toward the late afternoon to around 10 mph.

Geoff enjoying a flight with his Mustang

I've made a temporary modification to cover the holes in the wing of the Sunbeam. It flies a lot better now, but I'll have to make a more permanant effort and use Solarfilm instead of Sellotape.

Wing slots temporarily covered.

Ron brought along this nice little delta. All balsa construction with tissue and dope finish - no paint!

Nice delta.

Now I can go to work tomorrow refreshed as having been flying today. Trouble is, two hours and its as if I've not had a week end at all.

Flying today...

...Just for a change. I say that as I've been a bit busy with other things lately. Nothing connected with flying or engineering, but a holiday aboard TQ, and since then, I've been decorating. Finished that for now and I'm moving my modeling workshop into that room. Its a bit smaller but I think less junk will be dumped in there as there's no room for it.

In the process of moving in.

The weather brought out a few more pilots than usual today. Wall to wall sunshine and a (cold) light breeze 6 - 8 mph from the North-West. Flew the Yak and the Sunbeam, and Malcolm asked me to fly his Flair Magnatilla, a maiden flight. Powered by an OS52fs four stroke engine it had plenty of oomph! Required some trim adjustments, and an increase in aileron and elevator movement, and some more down thrust on the engine to stop the "ballooning". All this knowledge is good information for me when I start building my Flair Legionaire for my Ketro KT54fs.

Sorry there's no pictures of todays flying, I forgot the camera.